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    Charles Plumier (French: [ʃaʁl ply.mje]; 20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a French botanist after whom the frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier...
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  • Look up plumier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plumier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Plumier (1646–1704), French...
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    HMS Largs (redirect from MV Charles Plumier)
    naval, army and air force crew. She was built by France and named MV Charles Plumier in 1938. Following the creation of Vichy France and Free France she...
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    Republic) about 1696–1697 by the French Minim friar and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the...
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    flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The color fuchsia...
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    published by Henry Charles Andrews in the eighth volume of his The Botanist's Repository. In his description he credits Charles Plumier as having published...
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    named in honour of 17th-century French botanist and Catholic monk Charles Plumier, who traveled to the New World documenting many plant and animal species...
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    begonia Leaf of Begonia masoniana The genus name Begonia was coined by Charles Plumier, a French patron of botany, and adopted by Linnaeus in 1753, to honor...
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    species extending into temperate climates. It was named by the monk Charles Plumier after the ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides. Wild Yam...
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    a passionate plant collector (he met the naturalist Charles Plumier in the Antilles, and Plumier later named the begonia after him). He was the son of...
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